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Houses, Road Signs and Unusual Check-in (Sweden)

Unusually the day started off hot (18 C) and sunny, but it dropped to 11 C, and rained in the afternoon.

This typical Swedish house was directly opposite a garage I stopped at.

For the first time there was a very brief bit of "motorway", which was only actually two lanes.


The road signs have an orange (or yellow) background rather than white, this is so they show up better in the winter against a snowy background.

There is a sensible approach to speed limits, these tend to be 110 km/h for two lane stretches and also for the wider single lane, for the narrower single lane it is 90 km/h. I've never seen so many speed cameras on the 90 km/h stretches, literally one every three to five kilometres; not that anyone was really speeding anyway (the speed cameras are all front facing so bikes can't get caught as no front number plate). The junctions tend to have 70 km/h restrictions.


As the main road commonly only has a single lane (and no hard shoulder) you are not allowed to directly turn left. Instead, you filter off to the right then join the junction at 90 degrees, so you can go straight ahead when both lanes are clear (see road sign below)

There has tended to always be a central crash divider, and Armco or fences on the nearside, but there are still warning signs for reindeer and moose, even with additional high fences on the forest edge.


My hotel tonight had a novel check-in, there was a list of names nominating your room number, and you just took the appropriate key.

This is a small hotel (relatively cheap as common bathroom, but nice rooms) in the grounds of a large golf club and is only staffed in the morning.





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